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  Series: QP Shooting/Natsumi & Mei Genre: Humour, Slice of Life Length: 4092 words B/D: This is another one in the chain of Natsumi/Mei stories where they're sisters, for QuincyUSA.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 4323 words B/D: Formatting things on blogspot is a chore. I ended up posting this on Ao3 well before I posted it here as a result.

  Genre: Slice of Life Words: 4069 B/D: Picking up the Mira/Alte storyline earlier, this story explores Mira's attempt to infiltrate the Suguri household and gather information.

  Genre: Slice of Life Length: 4179 words BD: After a long, long time, I've finally returned to finish this arc. In the end, it's not quite what I initially imagined, but a story of any kind beats no story at all.

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 5020 words B/D: And now for the thrilling conclusion of the Natsumi day festivities!

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 5143 words B/D: Continuing right on where we left off, it's chapter 2 of the Natsumi day festivities.

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 5026 words B/D: It's the 23rd of July -- or, in the OJ fandom, Natsumi Day! To celebrate, QuincyUSA on twitter commissioned me for not just one chapter, but a full three chapter story, of which this is part 1. It follows on from the previous Natsumi & Mei story, and retains the conceit that they are sisters. Enjoy!

Series: Flying Red Barrel Genre: Slice of Life Length: 2191 words B/D: I said I'd do a Flying Red Barrel story to celebrate its re-release on steam ; it took a while because I had other projects with deadlines, and I had to scale down the idea a bit, but here it is! I really have to get a cover image for this series one of these days.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 800 words B/D: This piece was actually done a long time ago, for an OJ fanzine that was being produced to support a charitable concern. Quite a few people contributed, including popular or well-known artists in the fan community, and there were also a few written pieces (an interview with Honos that had been translated, and an article on Flying Red Barrel). Towards the end of the book, you might have found this story. Due to difficulties in distribution that were exacerbated by the emergence of COVID-19, the physical copies took quite a while to ship, and have only just started to come through for most of the contributors (although I believe the e-zine version shipped on time). I didn't want to publish it until the actual books started to arrive, but now I feel like I can share the piece. While the project had its difficulties, I definitely appreciate having had the opportunity to work on it, and it's the first time I've had my work f...

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 2792 words B/D: Made this as a quick birthday present for Coffgirl.

Series: 100% OJ / Katawa Shoujo Genre: Humour, slice of life Length: 3661 words B/D: This is a story for Célja, who wanted to know what would happen if  everyone's favourite armless girls met up and had a chat. The result: banter.

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 4827 words B/D: This was a commission from Quincy/QuincyUSA on twitter, who asked for a story with Mei and Natsumi in a setting in which they're sisters. I didn't really have a clean idea of Mei's canon personality when I started, so I more or less recalled some vague things about classic!Mei that I might have misremembered and just meandered until I got the form she takes here.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 1446 words BD: I was asked to do a story for 'Alte Day' by Altela, which falls on March 11. So, here it is! It's only a small piece, since I'm currently not writing fanfic for public posting and am instead working on either commissions or the VN.

Hi, and welcome back to Seabed! This will be a very quick one since the scene itself isn’t very long, and only a few things really stand out in my mind about it. Back in the regular story, we join Takako and Sachiko at an airport, bound for Paris – city of culture and, of course, Parisians, who are known for being quite rude. And by ‘rude’, I mean there’s a rare culture-bound psychological condition, primarily afflicting Japanese people such as Sachiko and Takako, caused by the sheer disparity between the reputation of Paris as a place of art and culture, and the attitudes of the Parisian people at large. It’s called Paris Syndrome, and knowing about it probably isn’t going to help us analyse the story in any way, but since this is a psychological type of VN I thought I might as well bring it up. More significant, in a meta-narrative kind of way, is the fact that the two are travelling at all. We’ve already discussed ‘a town surrounded by mountains’, and the ‘closed circl...

I've mentioned  on Ko-fi  that I want to do an OJ VN and would be using my Ko-fi donations to pursue that goal, so I'd like to talk a little more about that project - what it involves, what the scope is, a very basic outline of the plot, how the plans have changed from the original draft, and a few other minor details. First, I'll talk about the original draft. I came up with it a year or two ago, and did some semi-detailed planning on the way the plot would flow. The setting would be a university/college setting, which retains some of what makes high school AUs so enjoyable, but allows for greater character agency and a wider range of experiences than a standard high school. The protagonist and viewpoint character would be Sora, for a range of reasons. Firstly, she's my favourite, which isn't a great  reason in the grand scheme of things, but it's still a reason. Secondly, my experiences with writing OJ fanfic have taught me that Sora adapts very  well to t...

A/N: Since this series stopped for a while and now is re-starting, here's some links to the previous parts if you want to review them: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Hello, and welcome back – at long last – to the Seabed Slow Read! For a few little administrative points: I wasn’t intending to let this sit for as long as it did, but sometimes life just gets the better of me, and the daily grind redoubles its efforts. I’m not great at picking things back up once I’ve started them and loss the thread, so please bear with me as I get re-acquainted with the workflow here. Part of my motivation for doing this is that I’ve enjoyed great support on ko-fi, and while I don’t feel good specifically saying ‘pay me and I’ll do this thing’ (a la patreon) because I wouldn’t want to disappoint people if I fail, I still wanted to have a goal to show some appreciation for the people who tipped me so generously. I spent some of the money on helping a friend afford a plushie in Wave ...

Foreword: These drabbles are also up, and probably better formatted, on Ao3  here.  This is more or less just an archive. I'll dump drabbles in batches of 50 where possible/sensible. I'll also try to put some basic tags (series, characters) in the titles of the individual drabbles so they're easier to sort through.

Genre: Humour/Slice of Life Length: 1945 words B/D: It's been a while since I had time to update this blog, but I have definitely been doing stuff... I promise! This is a quick, breezy little Kae/Nanako piece, requested by Quincy via Ko-fi.

Genre: Slice of Life, maybe? Length: 2721 words B/D: It was Altela's birthday recently and I felt like making a (late) gift for them, so at long last, here's an introduction for Alte in the Survivalverse.

Genre: Slice of Life Length: 3317 words B/D: This ended up being a more dialogue and world-building chapter, which I'm fine with. Sometimes it's nice to take the time to do that kind of thing.